Excerpt from Life in Old Dublin: Historical Associations of Cook Street, Three Centuries of Dublin Printing, Reminiscences of a Great Tribune Wattle Bridge, he wends his way towards Finglas. Just outside the city the saint came to an eminence, which tradition points to as the mount where the Broadstone Terminus now stands. It is told that he looked over towards Dublin and its boundary, and said these words: This town will be prophetical. Although small and miserable, it will be a large town in time that is to come. It will be told and spoken of far and near, and will be increasing until it is the chief town in the kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.